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What is Battle of the Books (BOB)?
The statewide Battle of the Books' program is designed to promote a love of reading among students. It encourages students to read a variety of books and remember information about the plots, characters, and settings of the books. Every question asked in a battle is answered by the title and author of the book and takes the form of: Name the book in which a horse and a boy are stranded on an island.
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When can I get the book list?
Now!
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When should I start reading?
Students can begin reading in September. Practice battles will begin in December or January.
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How does the Battle work?
The final Battle team will consist of 4 team members. Other members of Battle of the Books will serve as alternates. Before the actual Battle, we will have the opportunity to take a couple of practice battles together. Practice questions will also be available to students in January. The final Battle will be during the last full week of February. This final “test” will be Internet-based. All four team members can work together to answer 25 detailed questions about the list of books.
Multiple questions may appear on certain titles and some titles may not be asked about at all. Teams may not use a title/author list or any notes. The time spent answering questions must be monitored by the media specialist or teacher. Teams will have 30 minutes to answer the questions.
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How do we choose the 4 team members?
After the practice questions are distributed in early January, team members will be required to take 1 or 2 individual tests. These tests will be scored the same as the final battle: ten points will be awarded for the correct title and five points for the correct author.
Students can also accumulate points throughout the BOB season by attending meetings, participating in discussions on MyBigCampus, joining in on lunch bunch book discussions, and writing practice questions (more information about this later).
At the end of the season, the four students who have accumulated the most points will be placed on the final team. All other students will act as alternates, in the order of points they have accumulated.
**For more information, please check out the Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association website:
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